A Christian newsletter

A journalism axiom is that the story must be fair if both sides of the issue complain about it.

Yesterday, I wrote that a reader complained about our coverage being too bizarre, or liberal. In the same week, we heard from another reader who complained our newspaper was too Christian, or conservative. Here’s the latest call:

“In regard to the June 2 and June 3 Tribunes’ Weld Voices page, each time I read this paper it blows my mind. Sometimes I question if this is a newspaper or a Christian newsletter. You guys seem to print material all the time that’s about telling people where they need to be, what they need to do, and religion this and religion that. It gets old after a while. Not everyone believes in the Bible or lives so orthodox. It as judgmental. There’s no question in my mind that you guys target those specific commentaries and you put those in overwhelmingly to ones that might be against it.”

I tried to call back this reader, but missed him. I’ll try again Tuesday. What I’ll tell him is that we publish almost all of the letters and guest columns we receive; we exclude them only because of concerns about libel, length or good taste. If he thinks these letters and guest columns tilt too much toward Christianity, then he should write and offer another view.

The reality is a lot of conservative Christians live here. We welcome their letters, just as we welcome submissions from liberal Christians, Muslims and Jews and from agnostics, atheists and anyone else.